bullets13 Posted November 11, 2012 Report Posted November 11, 2012 My dad got busted by a buck he swears was close to a B&C today.. I've hunted with him four years now, and he doesn't normally exaggerate. We hunt in east Texas, so it's not some high fence ranch where they breed em big. Wish he would've gotten a shot, but we had high winds today and it came out in just the right spot to smell him
bullets13 Posted November 13, 2012 Report Posted November 13, 2012 [quote name="tvc" post="1327832" timestamp="1352687989"]A basket rack 8 point is not B&C. ;D[/quote]He swears up and down it was at least a 20 inch spread, tall, and heavy.
rip2506 Posted November 15, 2012 Report Posted November 15, 2012 saw a shooter once I glassed him.... he gave me all of 5 to 8 seconds to process(legal not legal) then he was gone.. wish I would have picked up the rifle instead of the binos! Could have killed two birds with one stone or at least one buck. LOL More daylight pics as of the 11th on my cameras
bullets13 Posted November 17, 2012 Report Posted November 17, 2012 We have pictures of at least 15 bucks right now, 4-5 shooters, and one monster 10-point. And I'm off all week to hunt!
bullets13 Posted November 18, 2012 Report Posted November 18, 2012 [img]http://img825.imageshack.us/img825/9726/hill111712006.jpg[/img][img]http://img853.imageshack.us/img853/9888/hill111712173.jpg[/img]i found the one i want, but i'll shoot a different one if it's dumb enough to walk out in front of me.
bullets13 Posted November 18, 2012 Report Posted November 18, 2012 ignore the date on those pics, it isn't set. those are from last week and then last night.
TallinaBoyz Posted November 19, 2012 Author Report Posted November 19, 2012 Killed my doe today! Hopefully buck tomorrow
marshman Posted November 19, 2012 Report Posted November 19, 2012 [quote name="Buccaneer#3" post="1336678" timestamp="1353289465"]Killed my doe today! Hopefully buck tomorrow[/quote]Congrats!!! i hunted last Tue, Wed, and Thursday afternoons and again Friday morning. did not see a single deer.
TallinaBoyz Posted November 19, 2012 Author Report Posted November 19, 2012 Shot her at 6:55 this morning and continued to sit and three more came out.jus no bucks
TallinaBoyz Posted November 20, 2012 Author Report Posted November 20, 2012 Saw a little spike today and while I was walking back to camp walked up on a HUGE buck rubbing on a tree. Talk about MAD when it ran off
bullets13 Posted November 21, 2012 Report Posted November 21, 2012 Saw FOUR bucks today between 645 and 815. One huge four point that will be a beast in a couple of years, two borderline bucks that I passé on, and one solid 8 point, but the only shot I had was to butt shoot him, which I wasn't about to do with a ballistic tip.
westend1 Posted November 22, 2012 Report Posted November 22, 2012 Thankgiving cull buckhttp://s955.photobucket.com/albums/ae31/lock2040/?action=view¤t=Thanksgiving2012006.jpg
bullets13 Posted November 25, 2012 Report Posted November 25, 2012 [img]http://img818.imageshack.us/img818/7563/img5514g.jpg[/img][img]http://img23.imageshack.us/img23/9596/img5789e.jpg[/img]I got the one i was after! What was surprising was we had gotten a bunch of pictures on one stand, and i shot him all the way across the property (425 acres) when i was down in a bottom hunting for hogs. This is my first buck... might be hard to top for awhile.
bullets13 Posted November 25, 2012 Report Posted November 25, 2012 only 14.5 inches wide, but tall and had mass... good mature deer, weighed 170.
tvc184 Posted November 25, 2012 Report Posted November 25, 2012 [quote name="bullets13" post="1342040" timestamp="1353820691"]only 14.5 inches wide, but tall and had mass... good mature deer, weighed 170.[/quote]About 140"?
bullets13 Posted November 25, 2012 Report Posted November 25, 2012 [quote name="tvc" post="1342053" timestamp="1353821463"][quote author=bullets13 link=topic=103777.msg1342040#msg1342040 date=1353820691]only 14.5 inches wide, but tall and had mass... good mature deer, weighed 170.[/quote]About 140"?[/quote]didn't fool with all that last night. i would expect he's a 130"=140" deer. what i've seen says that width isn't as important as height and number of tines, and he's got plenty of both!
usedtobe Posted November 25, 2012 Report Posted November 25, 2012 [quote name="bullets13" post="1342038" timestamp="1353820606"][img]http://img818.imageshack.us/img818/7563/img5514g.jpg[/img][img]http://img23.imageshack.us/img23/9596/img5789e.jpg[/img]I got the one i was after! What was surprising was we had gotten a bunch of pictures on one stand, and i shot him all the way across the property (425 acres) when i was down in a bottom hunting for hogs. This is my first buck... might be hard to top for awhile.[/quote]Nice buck, Bullets. Gonna' be hard to beat the rest of your career unless you get to go down to south Texas sometime. :)
tvc184 Posted November 25, 2012 Report Posted November 25, 2012 [quote name="bullets13" post="1342114" timestamp="1353851465"][quote author=tvc link=topic=103777.msg1342053#msg1342053 date=1353821463][quote author=bullets13 link=topic=103777.msg1342040#msg1342040 date=1353820691]only 14.5 inches wide, but tall and had mass... good mature deer, weighed 170.[/quote]About 140"?[/quote]didn't fool with all that last night. i would expect he's a 130"=140" deer. what i've seen says that width isn't as important as height and number of tines, and he's got plenty of both! [/quote]Let's say you have a 120" scored deer that has a 15" spread. If you increase that spread to a very impressive 20", you only made your score 125". The 20" rack looks more impressive (maybe way more impressive) but the actual score doesn't change much or from a 120-125". Tine length and number and mass is what really adds the score up.
bullets13 Posted November 26, 2012 Report Posted November 26, 2012 usedtobe, i'm with you on that one. as far as East Texas deer go, that's going to be dang tough to beat outside of a high fence ranch. i was shocked when we started getting pictures of this guy, and was pretty sure i heard the neighbors shoot him Monday night. Couldn't believe it when he walked out yesterday evening. The good news... he's got a brother! we have a couple of pics of an 8-point with almost the exact same structure... not real wide, but very tall, very symmetrical, and mainbeams that curve around to where they almost touch.
bullets13 Posted November 26, 2012 Report Posted November 26, 2012 [quote name="tvc" post="1342360" timestamp="1353881890"][quote author=bullets13 link=topic=103777.msg1342114#msg1342114 date=1353851465][quote author=tvc link=topic=103777.msg1342053#msg1342053 date=1353821463][quote author=bullets13 link=topic=103777.msg1342040#msg1342040 date=1353820691]only 14.5 inches wide, but tall and had mass... good mature deer, weighed 170.[/quote]About 140"?[/quote]didn't fool with all that last night. i would expect he's a 130"=140" deer. what i've seen says that width isn't as important as height and number of tines, and he's got plenty of both! [/quote]Let's say you have a 120" scored deer that has a 15" spread. If you increase that spread to a very impressive 20", you only made your score 125". The 20" rack looks more impressive (maybe way more impressive) but the actual score doesn't change much or from a 120-125". Tine length and number and mass is what really adds the score up.[/quote]well, he's got plenty of all three of those! The taxidermist said he figured it was between 130-140. Said he'd let me know at some point. He said he knew for sure it was big enough for the Texas Big Game Awards. I thought that was pretty cool. I went and looked at them from last year, and there was only 1 that qualified from the county i hunt in.
marshman Posted November 26, 2012 Report Posted November 26, 2012 Congrats bulletts!! That is an awesome deer!
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